On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 09:16 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 7/20/22 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my PhD thesis in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'), the precursor to ex, which eventually became vi. It had a single-line display but unlike ed you could see what you were doing.
And because you had to do that decades ago new Linux users today should be using vi instead of all the more user friendly editors available for use in a terminal?
I don't know how you draw that conclusion from what is merely a reminiscence. I use vi because I'm familiar with it. I've also used emacs extensively and like it. There are plenty of alternatives and no- one is being forced to use any of them. I think the Fedora Workstation default is now nano, for what it's worth.
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